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| Last hike with Lichtenberg |
Because of the beauty of modern technology, you all already know about
that.
When we were leaving the MTC, he said he would come join us the following
transfer, but after 2, 3, 4 transfers passed by, we all kind of gave up hope of
ever seeing him come. But Wednesday evening before teaching English, we went to
drop some things in the mail room, and I saw the pictures of the new
missionaries arriving, and when I saw his picture, I lost my mind. The AP's were
there and said he was in his interview with President right then, and we could
wait around a minute for him to finish. It was so good to talk to him! It was
like having a lost brother come home. Now the whole family is back together!!!
After spending 2 and a half months in a tiny room with someone, you really do
become family. We're so happy to have him here. He is temporarily companions
with Elder Wilding and Okamoto until transfers, then I believe Okamoto will be
his trainer.
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| Reunited with Elder Garcia |
This week I also had the opportunity to attend the baptism of one of my
best English students, who I didn't even know was investigating the church! It
was so awesome, and she has amazing friends who are going to help her continue
strong in the church. She'll be great!
Last week Sister Shreeve and I were going to visit a less-active at the
farthest stop of our area, which is past the city border and way out in the
boonies. Well, we were just chatting like normal, and got distracted and missed
our bus stop. Whoops. I knew that the next few stops were in Nalaikh, and just
assumed the bus would turn around and we could get off on the way back. Boy was
I wrong. We ended up taking a beautiful long bus tour through the countryside of
Nalaikh! Needless to say, we didn't have time to meet the member, and had to get
back to the city for English. But it was really fun! Don't miss your bus stops,
folks.
We had a freaky little experience a few nights ago with a woman screaming
outside our door in the middle of the night. It was a really horrific, terrible
scream. I've had a lot of encounters with drunks, abuse, possession, and things
like that throughout my mission. Scary stuff. But it only woke me up for a
minute before I was knocked out again, but it shook my companion up pretty bad.
She told me the next morning that the screaming went on for a while, then she
listened to the woman whimper for nearly an hour. Then when we were leaving our
apartment that day, the tv screen in the elevator was shattered. So, I don't
really know what went on that night, but I am really grateful for Russian doors
that keep out all the creepy crawlers.
Transfers should be coming out tomorrow night, and I don't have the
slightest of clues what's going to happen! We have 6 new elders and 3 new
sisters coming, but in 2 groups- the sisters won't be here until next Thursday,
so this is going to be another dragged out transfer yum shig baina. I did hear
that Heacock and Urness will both be training though, so that's super exciting.
Transfers are so fun. And stressful. We'll be saying goodbye to half of our
sisters this week, and our mission will miss them a lot. We sure are getting
small over here. But the work moves forward, and miracles are still happening!
And it's getting warmer!
Love,
Sister Hansen
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| Road kill. Dinosaur? |
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